 | William Carpenter - Nature in the Bible - 1833 - 420 pages
...enlighten the earth. This idolatrous practice had infected Judea, for we read (2 Kings, xxiii. 11,) of the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the; sun or solar light. THE ASS. OF this animal there are two varieties described by naturalists— the wild... | |
 | Ernst von Bunsen - Bible - 1867 - 486 pages
...Josiah. For, of the latter it is recorded that lie destroyed with fire ' the chariots of the sun,' and ' the horses, which the kings of Judah had given to the sun.' Because of these idols, Shebna was to be sent to ' a distant land, and there,' so prophesied Josiah,... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1868 - 544 pages
...enlighten the earth. This idolatrous practice had infected Judea, for we read (2 Kings xxiii. 11) of the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun solar light. 134 m or IV. THE Ass.—The usual appellation by which this beast is distinguished in... | |
 | Henry Shepheard - Bible - 1871 - 456 pages
...to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven"—2 Kings xxiii. 5 ;—likewise of " the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun", and "the chariots of the sun",—v. II :—and "sun-images"—2 Chron. xiv. 5, (marginal reading). And... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1871 - 510 pages
...should worship and serve sun, moon, and stars, and the mention of Josiah taking away the horses that the Kings of Judah had given to the sun, and burning the chariots of the sun with fire, 2 agree perfectly with the recognition in Palmyra of the Lord Sun, Baal-Shemesh,... | |
 | CLERGYMAN. - 1872 - 202 pages
...vessels of Baal, and the groves. He brokj down all the houses of the Sodomites, defiled Topheth, and took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun. Going to Bethel, he destroyed the high place and the altar, burning men's bones upon it, as predicted... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 802 pages
...Dost thou make him start or bound as a locust ? " In 2 Kings xxiii. 11, mention is made of certain horses which " the kings of Judah had given to the sun," and which Josiah took away, also of some " chariots of the sun," which ho " burnt with fire." Some writers... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 490 pages
...should worship and serve sun, moon, and stars, and the mention of Josiah taking away the horses that the Kings of Judah had given to the sun, and burning the chariots of the sun with fire,* agree perfectly with the recognition in Palmyra of the Lord Sun, Baal-Shemesh,... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 492 pages
...should worship and serve sun, moon, and stars, and the mention of Josiah taking away the horses that the Kings of Judah had given to the sun, and burning the chariots of the sun with fire, 8 agree perfectly with the recognition in Palmyra of the Lord Sun, Baal-Shemesh,... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 492 pages
...should worship and serve sun, moon, and stars, and the mention of Josiah taking away the horses that the Kings of Judah had given to the sun, and burning the chariots of the sun with fire, 8 agree perfectly with the recognition in Palmyra of the Lord Sun, Baal-Shemesh,... | |
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away the Horses, which the Kings of Judah had given to the Sun, and burning the Chariots. 
